Otelo Burning – The MOVIE
EXTRAS REQUIRED FOR MOVIE

1. We need 100 extras on Friday the 6 August 2010 at Scottsburgh beach.
2. We need 50 extras for Durban Beach front  Thursday,12 August 2010.
3. The extras should be white and mixed ages (ie. Parents, children and Surfers)
4. The extras should bring a copy of their ID (certified)
5. They extras need to be available for the whole day (+/- 06H00 to 18h00)
6. Our Film is set in the late 80's, so  our extras should assist us where they can with 80's hairstyles and clothing. (try to avoid branded clothing, white clothes or black clothes)
7. Extras will be paid R200 a day (For the number of extras required on that day.)
8. There will be lunch for extras
9. it will help with the selection if people can could send their pics as well.

 Please note that the dates mentioned are provisional at this stage. If anyone is interested please have them email their details or phone me so I can communicate and confirm with them any changes.
 
Kind regards

Thabani Gigaba (Mr)
2nd Assistant Director
Otelo Burning Films CC
082 5195548
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Thabani Gigaba 

Tagline
Freedom is another word for nothing left to lose.
Logline
When a poor township boy with a deep, traditional fear of the water is offered a chance to escape the violence of his community through surfing, he is forced to choose between friendship and his dream.
Synopsis
When 16 year old Otelo Buthelezi, his best friend, New Year, and his 12 year old brother, Ntwe, are invited to the beach-house of their new friend, Tau Modise, they step into a world previously closed to them. It is exactly the opposite of their township- a place under a constant and growing threat from political violence, driven by Inkatha hostel dwellers on one side and township United Democratic Front comrades on the other.
It is 1989 and the struggle against apartheid has reached it’s zenith.
Soon, everyone recognizes that Otelo is gifted on the water, a god in waiting for his purpose. An older white man, Kurt Struely, approaches the boys, certain of their potential and invites them to his home to watch some professional surfers on video. He paints them an enticing picture of the life to be had, if they can master every kind of break - money for nothing and the chicks for free.
The boys practice and, under Struely’s watchful eye, become really good. Otelo outshines his teacher, Tau, who begins to resent the obvious natural talent of his friend. His resentment builds even more when Dezi, New Year’s younger sister, falls for Otelo. When Struely enters the boys into their first ‘localism’ competition, Tau persuades his cousin, Stembiso, to look after Ntwe at the township pool where the boys learnt to swim. But while the boys are carving out new paradigms on the water, Tau breaks his prized surfing board and Ntwe is burnt to death with a tire necklace as a suspected informer for the apartheid security police.
When Otelo, with New Year’s help, discovers the truth behind his younger brother’s death, he has to make a choice between the money, glamour, girls and superstardom of international surfdom and justice for Ntwe. On the day Nelson Mandela steps out of prison for the first time in 27 years, what this boy chooses will resonate for audiences everywhere.




Cheers
Paul



(since 1998)
14 Povall Road, Musgrave
Durban, South Africa

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